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Reddit can be a useful knowledge base, but there are certain subject areas where the consensus voice will confidently, clearly, emphatically state something that is simply wrong.

My current irritation is r/sailing, which has a large number of people who have clearly never sailed beyond the yacht club bar, or maybe a small lake, and have precisely zero clue about the interplay between wind and current (because they never experience the latter), spouting off bullshit with authority.

And there’s no point arguing with them, but my god, the extent to which they are smug about being wrong is irritating as fuck.

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The barely concealed glee from climate doomers with their crescendo of “look at the graphs! We’re all going to die, and it was totally your fault for putting an aluminium bun case in the black bin that one time” is, I have to be honest, kinda getting me down.

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Shimriez

@Sarah Brown While I agree that it's the governments and industries that are the biggest polluters and have the most power to change things - if they want to. I still think that what many millions of people do or don't do also matters. If nothing else to keep hope up and despair down.
@Sarah Brown
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Sarah Brown

@Maria Karlsen When I say none of it makes any difference, I'm specifically talking about the effect individual actions have on climate change. To a first approximation, this is zero, and has little scope for it to be any other number.

I agree that we can very definitely make a difference in how people feel, and this is the source of my complaint: the constant stream of "we are all going to die, because we are filthy eco-sinners" articles just make people feel like shit.

It's basically doom and gloom protestantism, but with the climate playing the role of their god.

@Shimriez
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Alastair Cooper

I have a theory that Musk is actually bipolar to some degree, at least prone to mania. He seems to go from simply being a jerk (not a bipolar or autistic trait, just who he is) but not crazy, to doing utterly bizarre things for a period of time, then calm down a bit. Certainly a fascination with a letter and tearing through a business over it without regard to the consequences seems like that. If so, presumably he only manages to do it without intervention because these aren't listed companies, since surely others would get wise to what was happening,

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Hi from bsky. You need an invitation to get here. The website link is published through telepathy. We have twelve active users and a nightly circular firing squad. You can’t link to posts anywhere, but you can verify yourself by visiting your favourite domain registrar with your compsci degree.

Today we will be talking about why fediverse is so hard to use and why it will never be popular with its fifteen million users.

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Extreme right politicians: Immigrants are the reason for everything that’s wrong! Elect us!

European public: Makes sense. We will elect you.

Narrator: Immigrants were not, in fact, the reason.

Tune in for the next episode to see who the next scapegoats are going to be (the answer will shock you!)

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Looks like the work we did with Stonewall was a bust. Reporting here that they now think it’s ok to stop us using toilets.

What an utter travesty.

news.sky.com/story/lower-the-t…

'Lower the temperature': Stonewall chair calls for end to 'megaphone diplomacy' around trans rights debate

The LGBTQ+ charity also appears to have softened its stance on the issue of single-sex spaces, as Mr Anderson said he supports exemptions that can be used to exclude transgender people from women's prisons and toilets.
Sky News

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Sarah Brown

TERF bullshit, long

So the background here is that I referred to TERFs as pests that are particularly recalcitrant, like pubic lice or bedbugs.

And various people liked the post, including some who are members or a UK political party.

And some pubic louse with nothing better to do is complaining about them because they liked my post.

And said pubic louse got told to go piss into the wind by the complaints process.

So instead of taking the hint that everyone hates them and all their bullshit works, they set out to prove me right by just being UTTERLY FUCKING UNABLE TO JUST PISS OFF AND LEAVE PEOPLE IN PEACE.

I’m sure the irony of this situation is lost on them. Silly fucker.

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Sarah Brown

She must really hate it that I resigned from said party and then emigrated to get away from the likes of her and their bullshit, and as a result there is nothing they can do to get at me other than bother my friends.

I mean, I am annoyed on behalf of my friends, but I also appear to have triple residency now: Portugal, the UK, and rent-free in their heads.

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Essjay (she / her) 🏳️‍🌈

Yes Kettle Chips are vile.
I've given up on crisps generally.

I really like these as an alternative:

trolley.co.uk/product/cofresh-…

Cofresh Jalapeno Potato Grills (80g) - Compare Prices & Where To Buy

Compare the Best Prices and Offers on Cofresh Jalapeno Potato Grills (80g) in Tesco, Asda, Morrisons. From £0.55 - £0.99. Prices updated daily.
www.trolley.co.uk
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Alexandra Lanes

Oh I see, so the lens varies in a pattern over its surface and just relies on binocular vision and your brain to sort it all out? That’s absurdly clever (and suggests these contacts wouldn’t work for me). I think when I first saw you describe this I assumed the chessboard was an artefact of your brain rather than of the lens. (Like the weird kaleidoscope patterns you get when you rub your eyes too hard.)
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James Harris - Find my bridged Bluesky account

@cykonot @kianryan that’s kinda the point I guess. The business should be expecting to bear the cost of that interaction. The fact Twitter didn’t seek to monetize B2C interactions is part of why they’re where they are right now. They never grew the platform into a true business tool and got bought out by a Aparteid Clyde
@Cykonot @kianryan ☑️🐙🏳️‍🌈

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Expect the orca people will be along to explain about how he was a billionaire and deserved it any moment now.

Seriously, I think the main thing determining whether dolphins (including orcas) attack humans is whether they think they can get away with it. Nasty little twats, they are.
asahi.com/ajw/articles/1495829…

Swimmer left with broken ribs after dolphin attack in Fukui | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

A swimmer in his 60s was left with broken ribs July 16 after a dolphin rammed him in shallow waters at a beach in Fukui Prefecture.
The Asahi Shimbun

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Paywall
Seminal "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" crap study, largely determined to be bullshit but often used as justification to abuse trans kids withdrawn on account of how it's nonsense: medscape.com/s/viewarticle/992…

After Backlash, Publisher to Retract Article That Surveyed Parents of Children With Gender Dysphoria, Says Co-Author

Soon after publication, the study was criticized that its method of enlisting study participants was biased.
Ellie Kincaid (Medscape)

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Shoutout to places which have 1 “free from” sandwich in their entire range, and it’s lactose free vegan salad on gluten free bread because that ticks all the “food intolerance” boxes in one go.

And by “shoutout”, I mean “fuck you”.

You wonder why nobody is buying your dismal sadness cardboard. It’s because gluten intolerant people like chicken as well (for example)

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Looking like Bluesky is basically over. Jack Dorsey will not budge from the ideological position that content moderation is something that can be done as an afterthought with regexps.

It maybe worked well enough to keep the site viable as long as the number of bad actors was tiny. It clearly doesn’t work any more.

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“I tried the fediverse and didn’t follow anyone and it sucked, so I stopped and went back to Twitter again.”

These people would have hated Twitter circa 2008 when it had pretty much exactly the same issue.

But that’s the point of social media: to find likeminded people with common interests. Somewhere along the line that changed into social media being a thing that tells you what you think, and what you should be liking.

That’s easy, but it’s mental refined sugar. It’s just incredibly crap for you.

If you want interesting, fun and stimulating stuff, follow interesting, fun and stimulating people.

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Now -> Her_Doing@sunny.garden

@zimowski
Z, you've been rude to everyone in this entire thread. That is not welcome here, & on Twitter I would have blocked you in an instant. (And I will here, if you respond w rudeness to me.)

However, on the chance you are genuinely asking in good faith, the other way to find people is to put a hashtag in the search box - #Taiga, #Java, a favourite band, or whatever you are interested in. It will help you find people w common interests whom you may wish to follow.

Good luck.

#java #taiga
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